Combined cigarette, match, and ash holder



Aug. 29, 1933. w. J. WIRTH 1,924,730

COMBINED CIGARETTE, MATCH, AND ASH HOLDER Filed April 26, 1932 0e Walk/"J Wz'rf/z,

,5 flaw Ki??? I Patented Aug. 29, 1933 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE COMBINED CIGARETTE, MATCH, AND ASH HOLDER 4 Claims.

An object of this invention is to provide a device for smokers comprising a housing or case open at two opposite ends, to slidingly receive therein a drawer having a plurality of compartments wherein will be contained cigarettes or other smokers product, matches, and a receptacle for holding ashes and refuse cigarette and cigar ends, said drawer being drawn out at one end of the case to afford access to the smokers sup- 0 plies and at the other end to afford access to the ash receptacle.

Another object of the invention is to provide a frictional resistance and stop means between the case and drawer which will keep the drawer from sliding out accidentally when the device is tilted above either of its open ends and which will exert an increased resistance to prevent further withdrawal Without the exercise of considerable force when either end of the drawer is out the maximum distance for its intended use.

A further object is to provide sanitary means for holding a partially smoked cigarette or cigar on the case with its wet end out of contact with the case. a

A still further object is to provide a holder for matches whether in boxes or in paper folders.

I accomplish these principal objects, and others which will hereinafter appear, by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which;

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of my invention with the ash receptacle end of the drawer drawn out to position for use;

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of my device taken on the line 2--2 of Fig. 3, with the cigarette-holding end of the drawer drawn out, and

Fig. 3 is an elevation of the invention, looking at the opposite end from the ash tray, andFig. 4 is a detail showing the side of the case bowed inwardly.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views of the drawing.

The housing or case comprises a top 4, bottom 5, and sides 6 and 7, formed out of sheet metal or any suitable material, and open at both ends. As shown in Fig. 3, the material of the sheetmetal sides 6 and 7 is turned inwardly as flanges 8 and 9, and the bottom 5 as a single and separate sheet is laid upon and soldered or welded to the flanges for the double purpose of stifiening the bottom and to raise the major portion between the flanges out of contact with a table or other support to prevent rocking.

The material of the top 4 is extended and bent upwardly at right angles into a flange 10, and

preferably smaller, and also preferably contains entering from the top edge of flange 10 are a pair of half-round recesses 11, 11, in which partially smoked and generally lighted cigarettes are placed and held. Pressed up from the top 4, within suitable distance from the flange 10, is a rib 12 which supports the wet end of the partially smoked cigarette out of contact with the top .4, to keep the wet end from depositing germs from the mouth of the smoker or from acquiring germs previously deposited on the top member, as might occur if direct contact with-the top were permitted. 1

Slidingly located within the case is a drawer 13 which fills the casein the closed position of the drawer. This drawer is divided into two compartments 14 and 15 by a transverse partition 16. The compartment 14 is designed to receive cigarettes or cigars, and also matches, when the invention is not in use. The compartment 15 is a removable lining or box 17. The end of the drawer 13 having the compartment 15 is next to the flange-holder 10, so that when the end of the drawer is'drawn out as shown in Fig. 1, the compartment 15 is directly beneath and ashes dropping from or raked off on the flange 10 will fall into the compartment 15 and into the box 17. By the use of a removable box 1'? the latter can be taken out to dump its ash content without lifting the whole device and without removing the drawer.

To frictionally retard the sliding of the drawer 13 in its case I press an outwardly projected cone 18 out of a vertical sheet metal wall of the drawer 13, to so closely contact the wall 7 of the case as to frictionally retard the sliding of the drawer. Should there be too much looseness the wall '7 is sufficiently bowed inwardly, see Fig. 4, to give the required frictional contact, and the limit of withdrawal of the drawer in both directions is secured by pressing similar cones 19 and 20 outwardly of the wall 7 of the case. These are located in the path of the cone 18 at points which arrest the drawer when the ash receptacle end or the cigarette holder end are at their proper predetermined withdrawal position from the case. The resiliency of the side 7 causes the cone 18 to enter cone 19 or 20, as the case may be and arrest the sliding movement of the drawer until an appreciable additional force is applied to force the drawer past the arresting cone.

I have now to describe the holder for matches ready for use. It comprises a sheet metal strip, half-round at both ends, a member 21 of which has one of the half-round ends all of which halfround portions extends above the top of the case and thence down to the bottom of the case and permanently fixed to the adjacent side of the case preferably by spot welding so as to stiffen that side and aid in retaining any bowed condition imparted to it. The strip is bent U-shape upwardly and outwardly even with the bottom of the side 7 and continued to approximately half the height or the side 7 and is then bent ou wardly at right angles to form a raised support 22 for a box of matches 28. The strip is then bent downwardly at right angles with the support 22 and continued to approximately a level with the bottom of the case where it is again'bent U-shape upwardly and outwardly and is continued approximately parallel with and to the same height as the member 21 to form the member 24 which completes a spring-clamp, with said member, to receive and hold the box of matches 23 therebetween, as shown in Fig. 1. The outer case 25 is pushed down into the U-bends at the lower ends of the members 21 and 24, thereby uncovering the ends of the matches in the box 23 for easy manual extraction with the fingers of the smokers hand. Should th member (.0 be too large for the case 25 to envelop it, the exposure of the matches is obtained by cutting the upper end of the case which is easily done with a pocket knife.

When the matches are in paper folders too th n to fill the space between the clamping members 21 and 24, they are inserted in the space above one of the U-shaped bends, the stems of which bends will form clamps to hold them.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim as new and wish to secure by Letters Patend of the United States, isr 1. In a device for smokers, a drawer containing an ash receiving compartment, a case open at both ends in which the drawer is slidingly a sembled to be dr wn out at either end of the case and at one of said ends to uncover the ash compartment, a flange turned up from the case at the end next to the ash compartment formed as a cigarette holder and ash scraper and a rib on the ease near the flange parallel with the flange to hold the wet end of a partly smoked cigarette out of contact with the case.

2. In a device for smokers, a drawer containing an ash receiving compartment, a case open at both ends in which the drawer is slidingly assembled to be drawn out at one end to uncover the ash compartment, a cigarette holding and ash scraping member supported by the case at the ash receptacle end, means on the case near the last member to hold the wet end of a partly smoked cigarette outof contact with the case and means to stop the withdrawal of the drawer relative to the scraping member immediately under the latter so the ashes will be deposited in the drawer by gravity.

3. In a device for smokers, a sheet metal supporting case, a drawer slidingly assembled in the a cone in the drawer projecting toward the adjacent side the case, said case being bowed into frictional engagement with the cone, and a stiffening member welded to the bowed side of the case to stiffen that side, said stiffening member being a part of a match holding clamp.

4. In a device for smokers, a sheet metal supporting case, a drawer slidingly assembled in the case, a cone in the drawer projecting toward the adjacent side of the case, said case being bowed into frictional engagement with the cone, and a metal strip welded to the bowed side of the case to stiffen that side, said strip being bent to form a match box support above a pair of U-shape bends each having a stem which'projects above the case and forms a box holding clamp.

- 'VVALTER' J. WIRTH. 

